{"product_id":"criminologists-guide-to-r","title":"Criminologist's Guide to R","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Criminologist's Guide to R: Crime by the Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the programming language R and covers the necessary skills to conduct quantitative research in criminology. By the end of this book, a person without any prior programming experience can take raw crime data, be able to clean it, visualize the data, present it using R Markdown, and change it to a format ready for analysis. \u003ci\u003eA Criminologist's Guide to R\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on skills specifically for criminology such as spatial joins, mapping, and scraping data from PDFs, however any social scientist looking for an introduction to R for data analysis will find this useful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey Features:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction to RStudio including how to change user preference settings.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBasic data exploration and cleaning – subsetting, loading data, regular expressions, aggregating data.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGraphing with ggplot2.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to make maps (hotspot maps, choropleth maps, interactive maps).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWebscraping and PDF scraping.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProject management – how to prepare for a project, how to decide which projects to do, best ways to collaborate with people, how to store your code (using git), and how to test your code.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54232507875672,"sku":"9781032244075","price":99.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032244075_28fffc5a-5277-483a-937c-f439e53939fc.jpg?v=1778816758","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/criminologists-guide-to-r","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}